When you can’t say it better yourself, shut up and listen
Letter No. 65: Includes unusually fine deployment of the English language by someone who knows what she’s doing.
HOPE
The Hi Guy in the fiction section
Letter No. 64: Includes incidents in two bookshops, lots of hellos, and some personal disappointment.
I was browsing in a
Book report for November 2023
Letter No. 63: Includes California, God, physics, a Polaroid camera, and single-sentence stories.
I read a quartet of the dissimilar
Hey, good lookin’, love your information
Letter No. 63: Includes discussion of silver halide, photons, egrets, and one tossed-off analogy.
On a November Saturday at the
Moments made possible by one of those open offices without dividers
Letter No. 62: Includes tiny narratives, shards of story, and epigrammatic morsels of mordant observation.
First, to all of my
Chance encounters with the celebrated
Letter No. 61: Includes far more name-dropping than is customary.
Walking into McNally Jackson Books in Soho, I nearly collided
More of the reading public reading in public
Letter No. 60: Includes books and chai and something in the eye.
Additional images from Dr Essai’s growing archive
Book report for October 2023
Letter No. 59: Includes a book in a box, two really stupid characters, and more mystification than is customary
This
Poster politics in Washington, DC
Letter No. 58: Includes street politics, cryptic commentary, and strange use of hearts
There are many ways to wage politics
Elegy for a friend
Twenty-six years at Johns Hopkins University left me with profound regard for the human mind’s powers of comprehension. We
